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Flava flav kinda pisses me off but this might supercede Straight Outta Compton as the most important hip hop album ever made, completely ignoring cultural significance and focusing purely on music it's almost jarring how the message is delivered, boogie down productions offered very slick informative lyrics that were meant to make you think about your role in the world, NWA was pure rebellion but Chuck D so brazenly addresses the system oppressing him with such confidence and frustration, ... read more

Ahead of its time, punchline after punchline strung together more effortlessly than any other rapper I can think of, most songs have at least 2 moments where you're like fuck how do you think of that, it's raw it's aggressive it's real it's swag as shit dead homies on god on god

Intimate and personal as is to expect from Little Simz, the storytelling has an almost slick rick quality where it flows so effortlessly you forget it's a piece of music and not just someone telling you something. The afro influences in the beats with the grand orchestral interludes and openings make it a one of a kind listen, overall banger

Surreal, unique and experimental, the tracks flow beautifully into each other and change tones suddenly as they evolve but not in a way that feels jarring, I don't know if there's any tracks I'll be revisiting and bumping all the time I like it more as a collective experience but it's still adeptly made